Creating our Universe

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by: Nicholas John Stoodley| New I Ching

Our world is so insignificantly small it hardly registers in the universe; in fact it’s almost completely impossible to comprehend just how irrelevant Earth appears when viewed in comparison to the enormousness of just our galaxy alone. The Milky Way is 100,000 light years across and since, as you surely know, light travels at 186,000 miles a second, you can then calculate its utter immensity. Yet this galaxy is only but one among billions of others – hundreds of billions of others – strewn out among the universe like rough and scattered diamonds that glitter in a background of unending darkness...

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